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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed alarm at the detention of two Iraqi journalists by the US military in separate incidents and calls on the authorities to make clear any charges against them or release them immediately. Omar Husham, 28, was arrested along with his father and two brothers at his house in the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Adhamiyah, the Associated Press...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Iranian authorities to disclose charges against two detained Kurdish journalists or release them immediately. On August 28, security forces arrested Anvar Sa'di Muchashi and his cousin at his home in Sanandaj, the capital of the Kordestan province in northwestern Iran, and took them to an unknown location, local journalists told CPJ. A...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has expressed outrage at the way Amy Goodman, the host of the nationally-syndicated radio and TV programme Democracy Now!, and two of her producers, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar, were manhandled and arrested by police while covering demonstrations Monday outside the Republican Party convention in St Paul, Minnesota, US. Paris-based RSF has called for an...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reiterated its appeal to Palestinian political leaders to put an end to a wave of arrests of journalists. At least four are currently detained in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the press freedom organisation calls for their release. "The political struggle between Hamas and Fatah has inflicted a great deal of damage on the press in the Palestinian Territories...

A journalist and three others were detained by the Mumbai Police on Saturday after they were involved into a scuffle with filmmaker Ashok Pandit while staging a protest at Azad Maidan in the city, the Indian Express has reported. Dilnaz Boga, who is working with a city newspaper, has done extensive research on Kashmir and made a documentary on the plight of children in Kashmir. She had also called...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on authorities in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan to end their month-long offensive against the opposition weekly Chernovik ("Rough Draft") in the regional capital, Makhachkala. Investigators with the local prosecutor's office and officers with the Criminal Investigation (UR) department of Dagestan's Interior Ministry searched the...

Hasan Abdullah, an anchor and reporter for Pakistan's leading television channel Dawn News, was detained for six hours by officers of an intelligence agency on August 26 and was released after being interrogated, the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) has reported. The agents kept his cellphone and a tape containing an interview with Balach Marri, head of the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), who...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has condemned the requirements imposed on foreign journalists by Hezbollah in the areas it controls in Lebanon. Press accreditation issued by the Lebanese information ministry is of no use in Hezbollah-controlled areas, where journalists must obtain permission from the party's press bureau. Three Brazilian journalists - reporter Marcos Losékan and cameraman Paulo...

The Israeli army raided and closed down three Palestinian radio stations on Wednesday, according to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). IFJ has demanded a full inquiry into the military crackdown on three radio networks operating out of the city of Hebron which provoked new demonstrations by Palestinian journalists across the West Bank and Gaza. "Sending the army into media houses...

With new allegations of the beating of a journalist by soldiers, the Mexican military must develop procedures to ensure that the press can cover its operations, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has insisted. Mexican reporter Jorge Inzunza Bustillos was harassed and beaten by members of the Mexican army while covering a shooting in the western city of Culiacán on Monday...